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I think men have got to change an awful lot. They still prefer the little woman.

Bette Davis

Playing our parts. Yes, we all have to do that and from childhood on, I have found that my own character has been much harder to play worthily and far harder at times to comprehend than any of the roles I have portrayed.
BETTE DAVIS

Character Children Myself Ourselves Play
Home is where you go to when you’ve nowhere to go.
BETTE DAVIS

Home Yourself
Gay Liberation? I ain’t against it, it’s just that there’s nothing in it for me.
BETTE DAVIS

Freedom Myself
At 50, I thought proudly: Here we are, half century! Being 60 was fairly frightening. You want to know how I spent my 70th birthday? I put on a completely black face, a fuzzy black Afro wig, wore black clothes and hung a black wreath on my door.
BETTE DAVIS

Black Myself Proud Thinking
Some young Hollywood starlets remind me of my grandmother’s old farmhouse — all painted up nice on the front side, a big swing on the backside, and nothing whatsoever in the attic.
BETTE DAVIS

Family Hollywood Myself Young
I think I’ll have a large order of prognosis negative.
BETTE DAVIS

Negative Order Thinking
Getting old is not for sissies.
BETTE DAVIS

Age Old
I will never be below the title.
BETTE DAVIS

Confidence Myself Title Worth
If Hollywood didn’t work out, I was prepared to be the best secretary in the world.
BETTE DAVIS

Career Life Myself
Almost as many inhumanities are committed in the name of love as in the name of religion.
BETTE DAVIS

Commitment Humanity Love Religion
You should know me well enough by now to know I don’t ask for things I don’t think I can get.
BETTE DAVIS

Enough Myself Thinking
My passions were all gathered together like fingers that made a fist. Drive is considered aggression today; I knew it then as purpose.
BETTE DAVIS

Hands Myself Passion Purpose Togetherness Work
The only way you can become a legend is in your coffin
BETTE DAVIS

Death Inspirational Reality
If everybody likes you, you’re pretty dull.
BETTE DAVIS

Dull Pretty Yourself
Success is built on disappointment, and disappointment is inherent in all success.
BETTE DAVIS

Disappointment Failure Success
To look back is to relax one’s vigil.
BETTE DAVIS

Appearance Relax
To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.
BETTE DAVIS

Dream Inspirational Life
Once the love bug wears off, as it inevitably does, you are shocked to discover that you really didn’t know the object of your affections at all. We know this to be so, even as we repeat the same mistake over and over and over.
BETTE DAVIS

Animal Discover Mistake Yourself
People often become actresses because of something they dislike about themselves: They pretend they are someone else.
BETTE DAVIS

Deep Hate People
It has been my experience that one cannot, in any shape or form, depend on human relations for lasting reward. It is only work that truly satisfies.
BETTE DAVIS

Experience Myself Reward Shapes
I guess I’m larger than life. That’s my problem.
BETTE DAVIS

Big Life Myself Problem
There’s only one way to work — like hell.
BETTE DAVIS

Hell One Way Way
Your luck is how you treat people.
BETTE DAVIS

Luck People Treat Yourself
As a female I think it’s a terrible hindrance in business. I think it’s a terrible hindrance for any female to have a lot of intelligence in private life, but I think in business sometimes it’s even worse because there’s deep resentment.
BETTE DAVIS

Business Intelligence Life Love Thinking
The act of sex, gratifying as it may be, is God’s joke on humanity. It is man’s last desperate stand at superintendency.
BETTE DAVIS

Humanity Men Sex
I’m the nicest goddamn dame that ever lived.
BETTE DAVIS

Live Myself
You mustn’t miss the moment. There’s only one first sailing into Rio harbor.
BETTE DAVIS

Missing Moments Sailing

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